# Al Di Meola discography

This is a discography of Al Di Meola, an American jazz, jazz fusion, Latin jazz, world music, and world fusion guitarist, composer, and record producer of Italian origin.

## Albums
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz | US Cont Jazz | SWE | NLD | NZL | GER | Certifications |
| Land of the Midnight Sun | Released: October 25, 1976 Label: Columbia Formats: LP, CD, download | 129 | 13 | — | — | 20 | — | — | |
| Elegant Gypsy | Released: 1977 Label: Columbia Formats: LP, CD, 8T, download | 58 | 5 | — | 40 | — | 35 | — | RIAA: Gold |
| Casino | Released: February 25, 1978 Label: Columbia Formats: LP, CD, download | 52 | 5 | — | 37 | — | — | — | |
| Splendido Hotel | Released: May 10, 1980 Label: Columbia Formats: LP, CD, download | 119 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Electric Rendezvous | Released: 1982 Label: Columbia Formats: LP, CD, download | 55 | 3 | — | 26 | — | 47 | 57 | |
| Scenario | Released: 1983 Label: Columbia Formats: LP, CD, download | 128 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Cielo e Terra | Released: 1985 Label: Manhattan Formats: LP, CD | — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Soaring Through a Dream | Released: 1985 Label: Manhattan Formats: LP, CD | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tirami Su | Released: 1987 Label: Manhattan Formats: LP, CD | 190 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | |
| World Sinfonia | Released: 1991 Label: Tomato Formats: LP, CD | — | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | |
| Kiss My Axe | Released: 1991 Label: Tomato Formats: LP, CD | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | |
| World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants | Released: 1993 Label: Tomato Formats: CD | — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | BVMI: Gold |
| Orange and Blue | Released: 1994 Label: Tomato Formats: CD | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | BVMI: Gold |
| Di Meola Plays Piazzolla | Released:November 5, 1996 Label: Atlantic Formats: CD, download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The Infinite Desire | Released: August 18, 1998 Label: Telarc Formats: CD, download | — | — | 17 | — | — | — | — | BVMI: Gold |
| Winter Nights | Released: September 1, 1999 Label: Telarc Formats: CD, download | — | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | BVMI: Gold |
| World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion | Released: October 24, 2000 Label: Telar Formats: CD, download | — | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | BVMI: Gold |
| Flesh on Flesh | Released: August 27, 2002 Label: Telarc Formats: CD, download | — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | BVMI: Gold |
| Consequence of Chaos | Released: September 26, 2006 Label: Telarc Formats: CD, download | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Vocal Rendezvous | Released: May 19, 2006 Label: SPV Formats: CD | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Diabolic Inventions and Seduction For Solo Guitar | Released: January 8, 2007 Label: Di Meola Productions Formats: CD, download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody | Released: March 15, 2011 Label: Concord Formats: CD, download | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| All Your Life (A Tribute to the Beatles) | Released: September 10, 2013 Label: Valiana/Songsurfer Formats: LP, CD, download | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | BVMI: Gold |
| Elysium | Released: May 22, 2015 Label: in-akusitik Formats: LP, CD, download, streaming | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Opus | Released: February 23, 2018 Label: earMUSIC Formats: LP, CD, download, streaming | — | — | — | — | — | — | 80 | |
| Across the Universe | Released: March 13, 2020 Label: earMUSIC Formats: LP, CD, download, streaming | — | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | |
| Twentyfour | Release: July 19, 2024 Label: earMUSIC Format: LP, CD, download, streaming | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||||

### with Return to Forever

| Title | Album details |
| Where Have I Known You Before | Released: 1974 Label: Polydor Format: Vinyl, CD |
| No Mystery | Released: 1975 Label: Polydor Format: Vinyl, CD |
| Romantic Warrior | Released: 1976 Label: Columbia Format: Vinyl, CD |
| Returns | Released: March 17, 2009 Label: Eagle Format: CD, download |

### Collaborations

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz | US Cont Jazz | GER | NLD | AUT | NZL | FRA |
| Friday Night in San Francisco Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) | Released: August 10, 1981 Label: Philips Formats: LP, CD, CS, download | 97 | 6 | — | 22 | 66 | 5 | 48 | 154 |
| Passion, Grace and Fire (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) | Released: March 23, 1983 Label: Philips Formats: LP, CD, SACD, CS, download | 171 | 9 | — | 35 | — | — | — | — |
| The Rite of Strings (Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Di Meola) | Released: July 17, 1995 Label: Gai Saber Formats: CD | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — |
| The Guitar Trio (Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, and Al Di Meola) | Released: October 15, 1996 Label: Verve Formats: LP, CD, CS, download | — | 1 | — | 55 | — | 27 | — | 21 |
| Cosmopolitan Life (Leonid Agutin and Al Di Meola) | Released: May 23, 2005 Label: Ole Records Formats: CD | — | — | — | 57 | — | — | — | — |
| Midsummer Night in Sardinia Andrea Parodi and Al Di Meola) | Released: February 16, 2007 Label: ZYX Music Formats: CD | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| The NYC Session: Beautiful Love (Eddie Gómez, Billy Drummond, Yutaka Kobayashi, and Al Di Meola) | Released: April 1, 2008 Label: Isol Discus Formats: CD, download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| He & Carmen (Eszter Horgas and Al Di Meola) | Released: 2008 Label: Galaxy Music Ltd./Danubius Music Formats: CD, download | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||||||||

### Live albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US | US Jazz |
| Tour De Force – Live | Released: September 27, 1982 Label: Columbia Formats: CD, download | 165 | 8 |
| Live in London | Released: May 16, 2007 Label: Di Meola Productions Formats: CD, download | — | — |
| Melodia Live in Milano | Released: March 20, 2008 Label: Valiana Formats: CD, download | — | — |
| World Sinfonia: Live from Seattle and Elsewhere | Released: 2009 Label: Valiana Formats: CD | — | — |
| Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival | Released: April 10, 2012 Label: The Store For Music Formats: CD | — | — |
| Morocco Fantasia | Released: 2017 Label: Inakustik Formats: CD | — | — |
| Elegant Gypsy & More | Released: 2018 Label: earMUSIC Formats: CD | — | — |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. ||||

### Compilation albums

| Title | Details |
| This Is Jazz | Released: 1976 Label: Sony Music Vinyl, CD |
| The Essence of Al Di Meola | Released: 1977 Label: Sony Music Format: Vinyl, CD |
| Greatest Hits | Released: November 1, 1990 Label: Sony Music Format: CD |
| The Best of Al Di Meola: The Manhattan Years | Released: January 1, 1992 Label: Blue Note Format: CD |
| Anthology | Released: October 22, 2000 Label: Sony Music Format: CD |
| Al Di Meola Collection | Released: January 1, 2014 Label: Concord Format: CD, download |
| Elysium | Released: June 8, 2015 Label: Valiana Music and Media Format: CD, download, streaming |

## Video albums

| Title | Video details |
| The Super Guitar Trio and Friends (with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene) | Released: 1990 Label: Pioneer, TDK Formats: Laserdisc, DVD |
| Live at Montreux 1986/1993 | Released: 16 November 2004 Label: Montreux Sounds/Eagle Vision Formats: DVD |
| Live at Montreux 1994 (with Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke) | Released: 3 May 2005 Label: Eagle Eye Media/Montreux Sounds Formats: DVD |
| One of These Nights (with Ernie Adams, Gumbi Ortiz, Mario Parmisano, and Sturcz String Quartet) | Released: 1 February 2005 Label: In-Akustik Formats: DVD |
| Speak a Volcano: Return to Electric Guitar | Released: 30 October 2007 Label: In-Akustik Formats: DVD |
| Super Guitar Trio: Live at Montreux /1989 (with Larry Coryell and Bireli Lagrene) | Released: 7 August 2007 Label: Eagle Rock Formats: DVD |
| Cosmopolitan Live (with Leonid Agutin) | Released: 4 March 2008 Label: Ole Records Formats: DVD |
| Return to Forever: Returns – Live at Montreux (with Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Lenny White) | Released: 12 May 2009 Label: Eagle Rock Formats: DVD, Blu-ray |
| Live in Tokyo (with The Sturcz String Quartet) | Released: 7 December 2010 Label: IMV Formats: DVD |
| Live at North Sea Jazz Festival | Released: 19 October 2010 Label: The Store For Music Formats: DVD |
| One Night in Montreal | Released: 18 May 2010 Label: Immortal Eur/Zoom Formats: DVD |
| Carmen | Released: 13 June 2011 Label: The Store For Music Formats: DVD |
| Morocco Fantasia | Released: 5 December 2011 Label: In-Akustik Formats: DVD, Blu-ray |

## Singles
### As lead artist

| Title | Year | Album |
| "Milonga Noctiva" (featuring Kemuel Roig) | 2017 | Opus |
| "Broken Heart" | 2018 | Opus |
| "Ava's Dream Sequence Lullaby" | 2018 | Opus |
| "Strawberry Fields Forever" | 2020 | Across the Universe |
| "One Sky" | 2020 | Non-album single |
| "Magic Song (Carol of the Bells / Shchedryk)" (Leonid Agutin, Amaury Gutiérrez, and Al Di Meola featuring Ed Cale, Angelica Varum, and Zhangjiajie Philharmonic Orchestra) | 2021 | Non-album single |
| "Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (Sliverpark with Al Di Meola) | 2022 | Endless Sleep |
| "Fandango" | 2024 | Twentyfour |
| "For Only You" | 2024 | Twentyfour |
| "Ava's Dance in the Moonlight" | 2024 | Twentyfour |

### As featured artist

| Title | Year | Album |
| "The Cruelest Goodbye" (Outlanders featuring Al Di Meola) | 2022 | Non-album single |

## Other appearances

| Year | Notes | Album |
| 1975 | electric guitar in "Prince of the Sea" | Venusian Summer - Lenny White |
| 1976 | guitar solo in "Man of Leo", "Stellar", "Carnival", "Ghost Machine" and "Time is Here" | Go - Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood and Michael Shrieve |
| 1976 | guitar | Go Live from Paris - Stomu Yamashta's Go |
| 1977 | guitar | Go Too - Stomu Yamashta's Go |
| 1982 | guitar in "Compadres" | Touchstone - Chick Corea |
| 1984 | guitar in "Allergies" | Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon |
| 1988 | acoustic guitar in "The Way In", and "Sledgehammer" | The Way In - Jeff Richman |
| 1988 | guitar | Latin - George Dalaras |
| 1993 | guitar | Jazzpana - Vince Mendoza and Arif Mardin |
| 1995 | guitar | David Broza - David Broza |
| 1995 | acoustic guitar | Dance of Fire - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh |
| 1995 | producer | Magic Touch - Stanley Jordan |
| 1996 | guitar in "El Ciego" | The Promise - John McLaughlin |
| 1996 | guitar in "Mediterranean Sundance" | Pavarotti & Friends For War Child - Luciano Pavarotti |
| 1997 | guitar | People in Room No 8 - Leslie Mándoki |
| 1999 | guitar | Crossing the Bridge - Eileen Ivers |
| 2000 | acoustic guitar | Inspiration – Colors & Reflections - Aziza Mustafa Zadeh |
| 2001 | guitar in "Beyond the Mirage, for 2 guitars", "Azzurra, for 2 guitars" and "The Grand Passion, for 2 guitars" | Nylon & Steel - Manuel Barrueco |
| 2001 | acoustic guitar | The Running Roads - George Dalaras |
| 2002 | guitar in "Torbellino (Whirlwind)" | Camino Latino - Liona Boyd |
| 2002 | guitar | Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - No Mercy |
| 2002 | guitar | Soulmates - Leslie Mándoki |
| 2003 | acoustic guitar in "The Sons of Anu" and "Gypsy Moth" | Black Utopia - Derek Sherinian |
| 2003 | guitar in "Sinej Reki Voda" | Deja Vu - Leonid Agutin |